This is an irreverent and frequently obscene look at a series of strangely interesting factoid that contradict or explain factoids that are well known but incomplete or wrong. Top five bad-ass presidents - Jackson because he liked to dual more than he liked to eat. He had 2 bullets in his body fr...
This book is fun and funny. As I read the intro, though, I was familiar with the experiment involving the child blue and the child described. It was VERY different than it was represented in this book. (I first encountered it on RadioLab: "Is the Sky Blue?") Unfortunately, this made me skeptical ...
Most of what you know about the guys whose faces are on the money in your pocket and the mountain in North Dakota were edited for the same reason health class edited out the best aspects of human sexuality: Because tell ing you the truth was far more likely to end with you putting someone’s eye o...